I find it frightening and a little bizarre that James Donald David JD Bowman Hamel Vance – the Republican nominee for vice president of the United States – pretends to know who does and who does not “have a stake in America,” and couldn’t wait to get behind a microphone so he could enlighten us.
In case you missed it, in his most famous stupid statement to date, he tried to shame Kamala Harris by declaring that “childless cat ladies” are miserable with their lives because they didn’t have children, which means they “don’t have a stake in America.”
Well as it turns out, I happen to know quite a few childless cat ladies, and I won’t pretend to speak for them, because they’re already doing that quite strongly with no help from me. But the fact that an adult male with a published novel and a Yale law degree would make such a dunderheaded statement out loud in public defies all belief. It remains to be seen how many voters he lost for himself and Donald Trump with an asinine statement such as that, but I’m betting it’s in the tens if not hundreds of thousands.
Now, to the point. If you boil down the 2024 presidential campaign to its fundamental elements, it becomes a contest between every citizen who believes that he or she should “have a stake” in America (and the Democratic Party that supports them) against the Republican Party that wants to eliminate, minimize, imprison, impoverish, disenfranchise or deport every citizen that doesn’t share its Christo-fascist, white supremacist, authoritarian beliefs.
It really is that simple. Do we have a stake in America or do we not?
If we think we do, then JD Vance’s feeble attempt to weed out and eliminate large segments of the population because they chose not to produce children may be one of the 10 most absurd, ill-considered and moronic statements ever uttered by a candidate for high office. Statements such as this make Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin look like rocket scientists … and he’s only been the nominee for 10 days.
Obviously, I am not a childless woman (although I did marry one) and we don’t have any cats (but we did in the past), but don’t you dare tell me I don’t have a stake in America. I have been voting in every election since 1968 and I have very strong beliefs about this country and the freedoms it is supposed to grant to its citizens.
For example:
* I’m not gay but I have friends who are, and I care about their future.
* I’m not in a same-sex marriage but I have friends who are, and I care about their future.
* No one I know is planning to have an abortion any time soon, but it’s not up to me to decide whether they do or not.
* I’m not black or brown, but I have friends who are, and I care about their future.
* I’m alive because of Social Security and Medicare and I intend to keep them both.
* I’m not particularly religious but I was raised in a church and I know good from bad and right from wrong. I don’t need anyone to try to impose their beliefs on me or exclude the beliefs of my friends.
* I have grandchildren and great grandchildren in school, and I care about what and how they are being taught.
* I will probably be dead before Florida is under water because of global climate change, but I care about the people who will be alive then – if there are any left.
* And for the life of me I don’t know how any decent person, or even someone with the slightest hint of morality, can be opposed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which is just a way of saying we are all humans equally entitled to be who we are, love who we love, do what we do within the law and live our lives to the fullest.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
So in conclusion, let me say that it’s not just childless cat women who JD Vance has insulted with his idiotic campaign rhetoric; it’s every American who Vance sees as somehow inferior to himself. Well, let me tell you, James Jim JD, there are millions of us out here who have been insulted, and we read your message loud and clear. We'll deliver our message on November 5.
(By the way, Mr. Vance, how many children have you delivered into the world? If the answer is zero, using your logic, I’d question your true stake in America.)
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